Iceland Business Forecast Report Q4 2013 - new country guide report published

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The Iceland Business Forecast Report helps businesses with market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Iceland and is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in this emerging market.

This report is an influential new analysis of Iceland´s economic, political and financial prospects through end-2017.

Key Uses

- Forecast the pace and stability of Iceland´s economic and industry growth through end-2017.
- Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends, to facilitate risk mitigation.
- Assess the critical shortcomings of the business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability.
- Contextualise Iceland´s country risks against regional peers using our country comparative Risk Ratings system.
- Evaluate external threats to doing business in Iceland, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies.

The Iceland Business Forecast Report includes three major sections: Economic Outlook, Political Outlook and Business Environment.

Economic Outlook:

How will economic policy-making and performance impact on corporate profitability over 2013-2017?

We provide our fully independent 5-year forecasts for Iceland through end-2017 for more than 50 economic and key industry indicators. We evaluate growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management.

Economic Outlook Contents

The Iceland Business Forecast Report features our forecasts with supporting analysis for 2013 through to end-2017, set against government views and our evaluation of global and regional prospects.

Key Areas Covered:

Data:

- Full 10-year forecasts with data - for key macroeconomic variables including GDP (real growth and per capita), population, inflation, current account balance and the exchange rate.
- Our comprehensive Risk Ratings system - rates each country worldwide for economic and political risk, and rates the business environment, within a global and regional context.

- Rely upon our 100% independent forecast scenarios for Iceland and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
- Exploit the benefits of our comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic database on Iceland, sourced and fully maintained from an extensive network of private sector, government and multilateral contacts.
- Gain key insights into the current and future direction of government economic policy, which could significantly affect your company´s business prospects, from our team of analysts and economists.

Political Outlook:

What are the political risks to doing business in Iceland over the next 5-years?

Our Iceland country Risk Ratings evaluate the short- and medium-term threats to political stability.

Political Outlook Contents

- SWOT Analysis for the Iceland Market - Political Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats facing Iceland.
- Political Stability and Risk Assessment - Our Risk Ratings assess explicit short- and long-term risks to political stability; latest ratings, rankings and trends for Iceland´s risk are compared with regional and global averages.
- Current Administration and Policy-making us assesses the threats to the continuity of economic policy, and likely changes to the business operating environment.

Key Benefits

- Benchmark Iceland´s risk profile against its neighbours, the global and regional average, allowing easy comparison of risks between key business markets.
- Identify, evaluate and anticipate political and security risks to the business environment, and to your company´s current operations and future plans.
- Gain valuable insights into government and policy-making, through our specialist team of analysts and economists, and their network of private and public sector sources.

Business Environment

Business Environment Risk Ratings with SWOT Analysis - Business environment Risk Ratings for Iceland, benchmarked against ratings for regional neighbours.

Country Competitiveness - Competitiveness of Iceland´s business operating environment in supporting corporate growth and profitability, compared with regional neighbours.
Business Environment Contents

- Assess your company´s evolving exposure to country specific operational and business risks, using our in-depth analysis of the legal and regulatory business environment.
- Understand your market´s comparative strengths and weaknesses in the key areas of commercial infrastructure and business institutions, using our proprietary global Business Environment Risk Ratings.The price of this market report covers 4 quarterly reports on this sector. This quarterly report will be downloadable instantly as a PDF document, with the 3 remaining reports delivered at regular intervals throughout the year.

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